Corporate Spies

Criminals and Rogues

Criminal Nemeses

Crimefighters

Classical Investigators

Sergeant  Frank Abbott (created by Patricia Wentworth);

Constable Dortemus "Dort" Adams (created by A. Carman Clark);

Frankie Aguirre, an F.B.I. agent (created by Ryne Douglas Pearson);

Malcolm Ainslie (created by Arthur Hailey);

Sheriff Rocky Allan (created by Virginia Rath);

Detective David Alvarez;

Sheriff Spencer Arrowood (created by Sharyn McCrumb);

Detective Ray Attla (created by Dana Stabenow);

Detective Barbara Babalino (created by Tom Philbin);

Special Detective Mars Bahr (created by Kj Erickson);

Sheriff Joe Bain (created by John H. Vance);

Sheriff Johnelle Baker (created by John Miles);

Detective Harry Ball (created by Barbara Yager Witten);

Police Chief Mario Balzic (created by K.C. Constantine);

Detective Barelli (created by Yvonne Montgomery);

Detective Ray Bartell (created by Robert Sims Read);

Mark Beamon, an F.B.I. agent (created by Kyle Mills);

Sheriff's Deputy Jason Beard (created by A.B. Guthrie, Jr.);

Detective J.P. Beaumont (created by J.A. Jance);

John Becker, an F.B.I. agent (created by David Wiltse);

Detective Sy Beckman (created by E.V. Cunningham);

Norm Benn (created by Barbara D'Amato);

Chief Reid Bennett (created by Ted Wood);

Officer Judy Best (created by Stephen Cook);

Deputy Billy Birdsong (created by Douglas McBriarty);

Lobo Black (created by William DeAndrea);

Detective Sonora Blair (created by Lynn Hightower);

Detective Lee Blanchard (created by James Ellroy);

Detective Bucky Bleichert (created by James Ellroy);

Detective Harry Bliss (created by R.D. Brown);

Sergeant John Bogdanovic (created by H. Paul Jeffers);

Officer Orin Boyd (created by John Westermann);

Detective Lou Boldt (created by Ridley Pearson);

Detective Harry Bosch (created by Michael Connelly);

Sheriff Carl Boxruud (created by Mabel Seeley);

Sheriff Joanna Brady (created by J.A. Jance);

Sheriff Grover Bramlett (created by John Armistead);

Chief Tim Brennan (created by Clarissa Fairchild Cushman);

Sergeant Dave Brichter (created by Mary Monica Pulver);

Officer Annie Broussard (created by Tami Hoag);

Detective Arthur Brown (created by Ed McBain);

Ricardo Bueno (created by Richard and Frances Lockridge);

Detective Eileen Burke (created by Ed McBain);

Anton Burns, a special agent with a state police force (created by Clinton McKinzie);

Chief Mitch Bushyhead (created by Jean Hager);

Deputy Brigham Bybee (created by John Gates);

Inspector Byrnes (created by Julian Hawthorne);

Lieutenant Peter Byrnes (created by Ed McBain);

Detective Mitch Calhoun (created by Christiane Heggan);

Dirty Harry Callahan [films] (created by Harry and R.M. Fink, Dean Riesner, and John Milius);

Nora Callum (created by Thomas McCall);

Detective Steve Carella (created by Ed McBain);

Detective Ruggiero "Rugs" Carlucci (created by K.C. Constantine);

Lieutenant Carreau (created by Daniel Broun);

Charlie Chan (created by Earl Derr Biggers);

Sheriff Chick Charleston (created by A.B. Guthrie, Jr.);

Chief Alden Chase (created by Theodora Wender);

Detective Marc Chastain (created by Linda Howard);

Jimmy Chee (created by Tony Hillerman);

Detective Orson Cheever (created by Alan Russell);

Margaret Chisholm an FBI agent (created by Gonzalo Lira);

Officer Ella Clah (created by Aimee and David Thurlo);

Lieutenant Clancy (created by Robert L. Pike);

Inspector Clarke (Patrick Quentin);

Jeffery Clayton, an expert on serial killers (created by John Katzenbach);

Sheriff Jules Clement (created by Jamie Harrison);

Inspector Cobb (created by Jonathan Stagge);

Sheriff Lewis Cody (created by William S. Slusher);

Commander Larry Cole (created by Hugh Holton);

Jesse James Colson (created by John P. Cooke);

Thatcher Colt (created by Anthony Abbot);

Lieutenant Columbo [television] (created by William Link and Richard Levinson; William Harrington);

Commissioner John Comaday (created by E.V. Cunningham);

Steve Conway (created by Earle Basinsky);

State Trooper Dayton Coop (created by Lydia Adamson);

Detective John Corey (created by Nelson DeMille);

Detective Fey Croaker (created by Paul Bishop);

Alex Cross (created by James Patterson);

Joe Cullen (created by Jerry Oster);

Lieutenant Eve Dallas (created by J.D. Robb);

Joe Dante (created by C. Newman);

Detective Lucas Davenport (created by John Sandford);

Lieutenant Bill Decker (created by Lawrence Treat);

Detective Peter Decker (created by Faye Kellerman);

Ryker Delany (created by Mary Lynn Baxter);

Captain Edward X. Delaney (created by Lawrence Sanders);

Detective Kate Delafield (created by Katherine Forrest);

Detective Frank De Sales (created by Thomas Boyle);

Mike Devlin, an FBI agent (created by Paul Lindsay);

Detective Paul Devlin (created by William Heffernan);

Sheriff Steve Dillon (created by Anna Katharine Green);

Bill Donovan, Chief of Special Investigations (created by Michael Jahn);

Detective Jim Donovan (created by Michael Jahn);

Sergeant Vince Dowling (created by Jack Mullen);

Popeye Doyle (created by Ernest Tidyman);

Inspector Dundee (created by Anne Austin);

Gabriel Du Pree, part-time sheriff's deputy (created by Peter Bowen);

Detective Jack Eichord (created by Rex Miller);

Chief Fred Fellows (created by Hillary Waugh);

Suze Figueroa (created by Barbara D'Amato);

Detective Fiona Fitzgerald (created by Warren Adler);

Adam Flint [television--The Naked City];

Officer Mike Flint (created by R. Austin Healy);

Inspector Francis Xavier Flynn (created by Gregory MacDonald);

Joseph Flynn, an F.B.I. agent (created by Michael Newton);

Detective Terry Flynn (created by Bill Granger);

Chief John Folger (created by Francine Mathews);

Detective Merry Folger (created by Francine Mathews);

State Police Officer Brett Fortesque (created by Valerie Wolzien);

Detective Cesar Frank (created by A.M. Pyle);

Benny Freedman (created by Milton Bass);

Jub Freeman (created by Lawrence Treat);

Lieutenant Bill French (created by Christopher Hale);

Sergeant Joe Friday [television] (created by Jack Webb);

Sheriff Matt Gabriel (created by Paula Gosling);

Lorenzo Garcia (created by R.J. Hamilton);

Lupe Garcia (created by Doug Allyn);

Lee Garrett (created by Fred Bean);

Chief Reb Gassler (created by Deborah Adams);

Undersheriff Bill Gastner (created by Steven F. Havill);

Lieutenant Karl Genesko (created by Susan Holtzer);

Will Gentry (created by Brett Halliday);

Cuthbert Gibbons, an undercover FBI agent (created by Anthony Bruno);

Federal Marshall Raylan Givens (created by Elmore Leonard);

Abe Glitsky (created by John T. Lescroart);

Inspector Glover (created by March Evermay);

Lieutenant Max Gold (created by Octavus Roy Cohen);

Detective Sammy Golden (created by Jack Webb);

Detective Harry Golding (created by Howard Fast);

P.J. Gray (created by Shirley Kennett);

Detective Noah Green (created by Nat Hentoff);

Detective Joe Gregory (created by Ed Dee);

Inspector Gridley (created by Ruth Fenisong);

Detective Lew Griffin (created by James Sallis);

Elenezer Gryce (created by Anna Katherine Green);

Detective Joe Gunther (created by Archer Mayor);

Satan Hall (created by Carroll John Daly);

Chief Judy Hammer (created by Patricia Cornwell);

Police Chief Arly Hanks (created by Joan Hess);

Deputy Gabriel Hanna (created by Micah S. Hackler);

Lieutenant Sigrid Harald (created by Margaret Maron);

Detective Kate Harrod (created by Laura Coburn);

Chip Harrison (created by Lawrence Block);

Commander Frank Hastings (created by Colilin Wilcox);

Detective Cotton Hawes (created by Ed McBain);

Tony Hawkins, an F.B.I. agent (created by Harry Harrison);

Detective Stuart Haydon (created by David Lindsey);

Sergeant Ernest Heath (created by S.S. Van Dine);

Detective Jake Hines (created by Elizabeth Gunn);

Detective Neil Hockaday (created by Thomas Adcock);

Joe Holden (created by Milton M. Raison);

Tad Honeywell (created by Grace F. Edwards);

Detective Lloyd Hopkins (created by James Ellroy);

Deputy Sheriff Marty Hopkins (created by P.M. Carlson);

Sergeant Helen Horowitz (created by David Delman);

Lieutenant Jacob Horowitz (created by David Delman);

Detective Hudlow (created by Paul W. Valentine);

Lieutenant Max Hunter (created by Willis Todhunter Ballard);

Lieutenant A. Jackson (created by Anthony Boucher);

William "Tough" Jackson (created by Warren Murphy);

Chief of Detectives Harvey Jacobs (created by H. Paul Jeffries);

Detective Frank Janek (created by William Bayer);

Officer Cliff Janeway (created by John Dunning);

Lieutenant Oliver Jardine (created by Kate Green);

Elena Jarvis (created by Nancy Herndon);

Art Jefferson, an F.B.I. agent (created by Ryne Douglas Pearson);

State Trooper Alex Jenson (created by Sue Henry);

Inspector Jervis (created by Q. Patrick);

Coffin Ed Johnson (created by Chester Himes);

Detective Johnson (created by Paul W. Valentine);

Grave Digger Jones (created by Chester Himes);

Deputy Sheriff Berkley Jordon (created by Frank C. Strunk);

Detective Milo Kachigan (created by Karen Rose Cercone);

Detective Jackie Kaminsky (created by Margot Dalton);

Alison Kaine (created by Kate Allen);

Detective Sergeant Joe Keller (created by Nelson DeMille);

Steve Keller [television--The Streets of San Francisco];

Detective George Kelso (created by Malcolm McClintick);

Detective Maurice Kendrick (created by Eileen Dewhurst);

Detective Joe Keough (created by Robert J. Randisi);

Lt. F.X. Kerrigan (created by Joseph Harrington);

Detective Kethridge (created by Cortland Fitzsimmons);

Kilkenny (created by Lawrence Blochman);

Lieutenant Bill Kinderman (created by William P. Blatty);

Mateesie Kitologitak (created by Scott Young);

Detective Bert Kling (created by Ed McBain);

Superintendent Knowles (created by Marian Babson);

Lieutenant Theo Kojak [television] (created by Victor B. Miller);

Detective Karen Kovac (created by Bill Granger);

Sheriff Milt Kovak (created by Susan Rogers Cooper);

Detective Spaceman Kowalski (created by Teri White);

Detective Harvey Krim (created by E.V. Cunningham);

Paul Lane (created by Richard and Frances Lockridge);

Officer Skip Langdon (created by Julie Smith);

Sheriff Cliff Lansing (created by Micah S. Hackler);

Sergeant Marion Larch (created by Barbara Paul);

Sheriff Lavers (created by Carter Brown);

Commander Joe Lawless (created by Tom Philbin);

Joe Leaphorn (created by Tony Hillerman);

Captain Leopold (created by Edward Hoch);

Lieutenant Richard Levy (created by Elizabeth Sanxay Holding);

Detective Abe Lieberman (created by Stuart Kaminsky);

Ralph Lindsey (created by Ben Benson);

Ross Lizenby, an F.B.I. agent (created by Margaret Truman);

Detective Karen Logan (created by Ed McBain);

Detective Tony Lonto (created by E. Richard Johnson);

Detective Pharoah Love (created by George Baxt);

Lieutenant Shelly Lowenkopf (created by Richard Fliegel);

Lieutenant Fred Lindquist (created by Sara Hoskinson Frommer);

Sergeant Shelly Lowenkopf (created by Richard Fliegel);

Marti MacAlister (Eleanor Taylor Bland);

C. K. Mackenzie (created by Gilian Roberts);

Detective Kate MacLean (created by Noreen Gilpatrick);

Ivor Maddox (created by Elizabeth Linnington);

Officer Gianna Maglione (created by Penny Micklebury);

Detective Blue Maguire (created by Teri White);

Chief Cuddy Mangum (created by Michael Malone);

Sheriff Eric Maland (created by Mabel Seeley);

Kathleen Mallory (created by Carol O'Connell);

Pete Malloy [television--Adam 12] (created by Jack Webb);

Sheriff Abel Marsh [made-for-television movies];

Lieutenant Marshall (created by H.H. Holmes);

Kay Martin (created by Deborah Adams);

Detective Kate Martinelli (created by Laurie R. King);

Detective Martinez (created by Connie Holt Sawyer);

Sergeant Masao Masuto (created by E.V. Cunningham);

Sheriff Charles Matthews (created by D.R. Meredith);

Sheriff Matins (created by Patricia Tichenor Westfall);

Sheriff Charles Matthews (created by D.R. Meredith);

Daphne Matthews (created by Ridley Pearson);

Police Chief Sylvester Maxwell (created by Nelson DeMille);

Highway Patrolman Beau McAllister (created by Carsten Stroud);

Inspector Timothy McCarthy (created by Isabel Ostrander);

Marshal McCloud (created by Collin Wilcox);

Detective James McDougal (created by Hildegarde Dolson);

Billy McGrath (created by Richard Rayner);

Detective Joe McGuire (created by John Lawrence Reynolds);

Inspector Christopher McKee (created by Helen Reilly);

Detective Brian McKenna (created by Dan Mahoney);

Sheriff McPhee (created by Douglas McBriarty);

Lt. Luis Mendoza (created by Del Shannon);

Heimrich Merton (created by Frances and Richard Lockridge);

Detective Meyer Meyer (created by Ed McBain);

Detective Monaghan (created by Ed McBain);

Louis Monroe (created by Bill Kent);

Detective Monroe (created by Ed McBain);

Sergeant Charlie Moon (created by James D. Doss);

Toussaint Moore (created by Ed Lacy);

Bumper Morgan (created by Joseph Wambaugh);

Chief of Police James Morgan (created by Andrew Coburn);

Detective Sal Morizio (created by Margaret Truman);

Hugh Morrison (created by Frank Orenstein);

Norah Mulcahaney (created by Lillian O'Donnell);

Muldoon (created by William Marshall);

Sergeant Fang Mulheisen (created by Jon. A. Jackson);

Sheriff Kurt Muller (created by Thomas Zigal);

Lieutenant George Murphy (created by Deidre S. Laiken);

Kate Murphy (created by Sister Carol Anne O'Marie);

Inspector Sarah Nelson (created by Susan Wolfe);

Eliot Ness, Director of Public Safety (created by Max Allan Collins);

Elliot Ness (created by Marvin Albert);

Jake Neuman (created by Jerry Oster);

Jack Nevelsen (created by Larry Watson);

Detective Eddie Nickles (created by William D. Pease);

Officer Barney Nolan (created by William P. McGivern);

Inspector Rae Norse (created by John Esteven);

John Novak, an F.B.I. agent (created by Gerald Petievich);

Paul O'Donnell (created by Nancy Star);

Lance O'Leary (created by Mignon G. Eberhart);

Megan O'Malley (created by Tami Hoag);

Jim O'Neill (created by Doris Miles Disney);

Chief Gabe Ortiz (created by Earlene Fowler);

Veronica Pace, an FBI agent (created by Philip Luber);

Officer Lorraine Page (created by Lynda La Plante);

Peter Painter (created by Brett Halliday);

Detective John Paris (created by Richard Montanari);

Inspector Wade "Old Icewater" Paris (created by Ben Benson);

Deputy Park (created by Frederick Irving Anderson);

Lieutenant Mike Parker [television--The Naked City];

Toby Parkman (created by Stan Washburn);

Deputy Parr (created by Frederick Irving Anderson);

Chief Scott Parris (created by James D. Doss);

Chance Perdue (created by Ross. H. Spencer);

Detective Jake Phillips (created by Nick Gaitano);

Inspector Oscar Piper (created by Stuart Palmer);

Detective Marvia Plum (created by Richard Lupoff);

Sheriff Garwood Plunkett (created by Barry Estabrook);

Sergeant Polnik (created by Carter Brown);

Detective Hamilton Pope (created by Edward Mathis);

Leroy Powder (created by Michael Z. Lewin);

Lieutenant Price Price (created by Knight Rhoades);

Quinsigamond (created by Jack O’Connell);

Lieutenant Peter D. Quint (created by Hugh Austin);

Lieutenant Nicky Rachmanoff (created by Robert Westbrook);

Officer Tom Ragnon (created by Richard Harper);

Detective Deb Ralton (created by Lee Martin);

Frank Ramos (created by Frederic Brown);

Tommy Rankin (created by Milton Propper);

Detective Jeremy Ransom (created by Fred Hunter);

Detective Deb Ralston (created by Lee Martin);

Detective Jeremy Ransom (created by Fred Hunter);

Detective John Rawlings (created by John Minahan);

Detective Ed Razoni (created by Warren Murphy);

Jim Reed [television--Adam 12] (created by Jack Webb);

Joe Reilly (created by C.J. Songer);

Detective Gary Reissig (created by Lillian O'Donnell);

Sheriff Dan Rhoades (created by Bill Crider);

Max Ritter (created by Lawrence G. Blochman);

Sheriff's Deputy Dave Robicheaux (created by James Lee Burke);

Sheriff Jess Roden (created by A.B. Cunningham);

Police Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt (created by Caleb Carr);

Detective Peter Rosen (created by Joan Hess);

Sergeant Devlin Rourke (created by James Grady);

Detective Rune (created by Jeffery Deaver);

Detective Anthony Ryan (created by Ed Dee);

Lieutenant Ryder (created by H. Edward Hunsberger);

Detective Sergeant Joe Ryker (created by Nelson DeMille);

Officer Amelia Sachs (created by Jeffery Deaver);

Constable Orlo Sage (created by Frederick Irving Anderson);

Christine Saksis, an F.B.I. agent (created by Margaret Truman);

Lieutenant Fred Santomassima (created by Frank De Felitta);

FBI Special Agent Dillon Savich (created by Catherine Coulter);

Lieutenant Justin Saville V (created by Michael Malone);

Inspector Schmidt (created by George Bagby);

Tom Schultz, homicide detective (created by Diane Mott Davidson);

Detective Leo Schulz (created by Shirley Kennett);

Inspector Lenny Schwartz (created by Irving Weinman);

Aline Scott (created by Alison Drake);

Detective Max Segal (created by Dan Greenburg);

Lieutenant Frank Sessions (created by Hillary Waugh);

Detective Rene Shade (created by Dan Woodrell);

Detective Sheppard (created by T.J. MacGregor);

FBI Special Agent Lacey Sherlock (created by Catherine Coulter);

Commissioner Isaac Sidel (created by Jerome Charyn);

Police Chief Joe Silva (created by Susan Oleksiw);

Detective Wally Simpson (created by Celia Dale);

Detective Jack Sinclair (created by Leonard Goldberg);

Detective Jacob Singer (created by George Baxt);

"Skinny" (created by James Colbert);

Deputy Debra Slater (created by Mark Munger);

Lieutenant Charlie Sleet (created y Stephen Greenleaf);

Bill Slider (created by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles);

Detective Smith (created by Malcolm McClintick);

Detective Jill Smith (created by Susan Dunlap);

Inspector Paavo Smith (created by Joanne Pence);

Chief Judd Springfield (created by Alison Smith);

Sheriff Harry Starbranch (created by Gregory Bean);

Deputy Frank Stark (created by Jack Crosswell);

Detective Rachel Starr (created by Lue Zimmelman);

Lieutenant Donovan Steele (created by J.D. Masters);

Detective Jonathan Steele (created by Michael Newton);

Detective Jesse Stone (created by Robert B. Parker);

Mike Stone [television--The Streets of San Francisco];

Mark Storm (created by Skip and Gloria Finkling);

Lieutenant Peter Strom (created by Mabel Seeley);

Lieutenant John Straver (created by Helen Hayes and Thomas Chastain);

Lieutenant Jack Stryker (created by Paula Gosling);

Detective Milo Sturgis (created by Jonathan Kellerman);

Officer Mike Svenson (created by Eve K. Sandstrom);

Detective Cobb Takamura (created by Rob Swigart);

Officer Tina Tamiko (created by Paul Bishop);

Martin Tanner, an F.B.I. agent (created by Michael Newton);

Mitch Taylor (created by Lawrence Treat);

Officer Wayne Tedrow, Jr. (created by James Ellroy);

Detective Martin Teller (created by Margaret Truman);

Chief Nick Thorn (created by Connie Feddersen);

Detective Virgil Tibbs (created by John Bell);

Tillman (created by William Marshall);

Sheriff Sam Titus (created by Eve K. Sandstrom);

Lieutenant Ben Tolliver (created by James Neal Harvey);

Mike Tozzi, an undercover FBI agent (created by Anthony Bruno);

Lieutenant Tragg (created by Erle Stanley Gardner);

Detective Nikki Trakos (created by Ruby Horansky);

Lieutenant Timothy Trant (created by Q. Patrick);

Captain Rat Trap (created by John William Corrington and Joyce H. Corrington);

Lieutenant Alonzo Tully (created by William X. Kienzle);

Paul Turner (created by Mark Richard Zubro);

Lieutenant Valcour (created by Rufus King);

Lieutenant Sarah van Allen (created by Tony Burton);

Detective Max Van Larsen (created by George Baxt);

Detective Maggie Van Zandt (created by Ken Gross);

Vic Varallo (created by Elizabeth Linnington);

Gabriel Wager (created by Rex Burns);

State Trooper Sam Watchman (created by Brian Garfield);

Sergeant Terry Webb (created by William DeAndrea);

Lieutenant William Weigand (created by Frances Lockridge and Richard Lockridge);

Joshua Weinstein, an F.B.I. agent (created by T. Jefferson Parker);

Deputy Chief Virginia West (created by Patricia Cornwell);

Lieutenant Al Wheeler (created by Carter Brown);

Sergeant April Woo (created by Leslie Glass);

Chief Susan Wren (created by Charlene Weir);

Lieutenant Alfred Zimmerman (created by Theodore George).

Luke Abbott (created by Paula Gosling);

Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn (created by Ngaio Marsh);

Superintendent Dudley Allwright (created by Philip MacDonald);

Inspector Andrews (created by H.C. "Sapper" McNeile);

Inspector John Appleby (created by Michael Innes);

Assistant Commissioner Herbert Armstrong (created by John Dickson Carr);

Inspector Henry Arnold (created by Miles Burton);

Chief Inspector William Austen (created by Anne Hocking);

Inspector Autumn (created by Robert Robinson);

Inspector Bill Aveyard (created by James Fraser);

Chief Inspector Alan Banks (created by Peter Robinson);

Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby (created by Caroline Graham);

Inspector Bass (created by George Selmark);

Cief Inspector William Bastion (created by Richard Harrison);

Superintendent Battle (created by Agatha Christie);

Inspector Beedel (created by Ernest Bramah);

Sergeant William Beef (created by Leo Bruce);

Detective Sergeant Harry Bennett (created by T.E.B. Clarke);

Inspector Biggins (created by W.H. Boore);

Inspector Biles (created by Anthony Wayne);

Inspector Sam Birkett (created by Laurence Payne);

Chief Inspector Bishop (created by R.T. Campbell);

Superintendent Blake (created by Maurice Culpan);

Superintendent Robert Blayde (created by John Wainright);

Chief Inpspector Bligh (created by E.C. Bentley);

Chief Inspector David Bliss (created by James Hawkins);

Superintendent Bliss (created by Edgar Wallace);

Inspector Blount (created by Nicholas Blake);

Superintendent Robert Bone (created by Susannah Stacey);

Inspector Bootle (created by Edwin de Caire);

Chief Inspector "Daddy" Bourne (created by G.V. Galwey);

Inspector Luke Bradley (created by Hugh Pentecost);

Inspector Franklin Brady (created by Allan McRoyd);

Inspector John Bragg (created by Henry Wade);

Sergeant Joseph Bragg (created by Ray Harrison);

Detective Sergeant Brant (created by Ken Bruen);

Inspector Ian Bridie (created by Margery Allingham);

Superintendent Frank Briers (created by C. P. Snow);

Superintendent Bristow (created by Anthony Morton);

David Brock (created by Barry Maitland);

Inspector Bucket (created by Charles Dickens);

Inspector J. Humphrey Bull (created by David Frome);

Sergeant Thomas Bulmer (created by Wilkie Collins);

Inspector Bunce (created by Dorsey Fiske);

Inspector Cheviot Burmann (created by Belton Cobb);

Inspector Burnival (created by Edward Candy);

Inspector Burnley (created by Freeman Wills Crofts);

Inspector Cardiff (created by Dulcie Gray);

Sir Robert Carey (created by P.F. Chisholm);

Detective Constable Carr (created by Jeffrey Ashford);

Inspector John Carruthers (created by John Dickson Carr);

Chief Inspector Carston (created by Bill Kirton);

Detective Inspector Neil Carter (created by Eileen Dewhurst);

Sergeant Caleb Cluff (created by Gil North);

Inspector Cockrill (created by Christianna Brand);

Inspector Codd (created by Michael Delving);

Inspector John Coffin (created by Gwendoline Butler);

Inspector Collier (created by Moray Dalton);

Inspector David Cope (created by June Drummond);

Inspector Cornford (created by Milward Kennedy);

Sergeant Craig (created by Ian Jeffries);

Inspector Richard Cribb (created by Peter Lovesey);

Detective Inspector Mike Croft (created by Jane Adams);

Chief Inspector Cromwell (created by Victor Gunn);

Constable Crosby (created by Catherine Aird);

Inspector John Crow (created by Roy Lewis);

Sergeant Cuff (created by Wilkie Collins);

Inspector James Dale (created by John C. Cooper);

Inspector Adam Dalgliesh (created by P.D. James);

Superintendent Andrew Dalziel (created by Reginald Hill);

Detective Charmian Daniels (created by Jennie Melville);

Inspector Dauncey (created by Douglas G. Browne);

Constable John George Davis (created by Jack Ripley);

Chief Inspector Davy (created by Agatha Christie);

Chief Inspector William "Bloodhound Bill" Dawson (created by Bennet Copplestone);

Detective Sergeant Derwent (created by L.P. Davies);

Inspector Desmond (created by Bill James);

Inspector Dewar (created by Neil Gordon);

Detective Peter Diamond (created by Peter Lovesey);

Inspector Donohue (created by Peter Turnbull);

Sergeant Cal Donovan (created by Jo Bannister);

Inspector Dornfell (created by J.J. Connington);

Inspector Wilfred Dover (created by Joyce Porter);

Chief Constable Sir Clinton Driffield (created by J.J. Connington);

Inspector Duncannon (created by J.J. Connington);

Sergeant Sir Peter Dunn (created by Edgar Wallace);

Constable Evan Evans (created by Rhys Bowen);

Inspector Tom Fairford (G.D.H. Cole and M.I. Cole);

Inspector Jeremy Faro (created by Alanna Knight);

Inspector Ian Fellowes (created by Gerald Hammond);

Sergeant George Felse (created by Edith Pargeter);

Inspector Fenby (created by Richard Hull);

Inspector Septimus Finch (created by Margaret Erskine);

Ralph Flensing (created by John Wainright);

Detective Constable Kathy "Kaz" Flood (created by Alex Keegan);

Inspector Flower (created by Moira Field);

Inspector Forbes (created by Hugh Desmond);

Inspector Fox (created by Ngaio Marsh);

Superintendant Heldon Foyle (created by Frank Froest);

Inspector French (created by Freeman Wills Crofts);

Inspector Jack Frost (created by R.D. Wingfield);

Baldwin Furnshill, Keeper of the King’s Peace (created by Michael Jacks);

Fusil (created by Peter Alding);

Chief Inspector David Fyfe (created by William Paul);

Chief Superintendent George Gently (created by Alan Hunter);

Gideon (created by John Creasey);

Chief Constable Gilliant (created by John Wainright);

Inspector Gilmartin (created by Charles Barry;

Inspector Liz Graham (created by Jo Bannister);

Chief Inspector Grant (created by Andrew Garve);

Chief Inspector Bill Green (created by Douglas Clark);

Inspector Greenwood (created by C.A. Alington);

Detective Inspector Greve (created by Dennis Haddow);

Inspector David Hadley (created by John Dickson Carr);

Superintendent Blanche Hampton (created by Trevor Barnes);

Inspector Hardcastle (created by Agatha Christie);

Chief Superintendent Colin Harpur (created by Bill James);

Captain Hastings (created by Agatha Christie);

Sergeant Barbara Havers (created by Elizabeth George);

Chief Inspector Hazelrigg (created by Michael Gilbert);

Superintendant Hebden (created by Lord Gorell);

Inspector Hennessy (created by G.D.H. Cole and M.I. Cole);

Inspector Cuthbert Higgins (created by Cecil Freeman Gregg);

Sergeant Judy Hill (created by Jill McGown);

Sergeant Honeybody (created by Kenneth Giles);

Detective Michaela Hoolihan (created by Martin Amis);

Inspector Hopkins (created by David Burnham);

Inspector David Hornbeam (created by John Rhode and Carter Dickson);

Chief Inspector Houghton (created by Maurice Culpan);

David Hoyle (created by John Wainright);

Inspector Hoyle (created by harry Carmichael);

Sergeant Hughjohn (created by Douglas G. Browne);

Inspector Humbleby (created by Edmund Crispin);

Inspector Hyde (created by Anthony Heckstall-Smith);

Detective Constable Desmond Iles (created by Bill James);

Inspector Jacko Jackson (created by Frank Palmer);

Sergeant Gemma James (created by Deborah Crombie);

Inspector Harry James (created by Kenneth Giles);

Superintendent Japp (created by Agatha Christie);

Detective Inspector Carol Jordan (created by Val Macdermid);

Harry Jordan (created by Janie Bolitho);

Sergeant Trevor Joseph (created by Katherine John);

Inspector Ben Jurnet (created by S.T. Haymon);

Superintendent Richard Jury (created by Martha Grimes);

Detective Inspector Christy Kennedy (created by Paul Charles);

Inspector Kenworthy (created by John Buxton Hilton);

Constable Kerr (created by Peter Alding);

Inspector Don Kerry (created by Jeffery Ashford);

Superintendent Duncan Kincaid (created by Deborah Crombie);

Inspector Kirby (created Andrew Garve);

Detective Superintendent John Knowles (created by Marian Babson);

Detective Kathy Kolla (created by Barry Maitland);

Detective Jack Laidlaw (created by William McIlvanney);

Inspector Lamb (created by Patricia Wentworth);

Chief Inspector Lyle (created by John Wainright);

Inspector Leric (created by Roger Busby);

Inspector Lestrade (created by Arthur Conan Doyle);

Inspector Joseph Lestrade (created by M.J. Trow);

Sergeant Lewis (created by Colin Dexter);

Sergeant Lister (created by Victor Gunn);

Inspector Littlejohn (created by George Bellairs);

Sergeant Gomer Lloyd (created by David Williams);

Chief Inspector Lloyd (created by Jill McGown);

Chief Inspector Lord (created by David Frome);

Inspector Loxton (created by J.J. Connington);

Sergeant Lumly (created by Donald Thomas);

Inspector Lyle (created by John Wainright);

Inspector Thomas Lynley (created by Elizabeth George);

Constable Hamish MacBeth (created by M.C. Beaton);

Inspector MacDonald (created by Arthur Conan Doyle);

Inspector John MacLeish (created by Janet Neel);

Macleod (created by Joanna Cannan);

George Macrae (created by Alan Scholefield);

Moss Magill (created by Dorothy Gardiner);

Inspector Mallett (created by Mary Fitt);

Inspector Mallett (created by Cyril Hare)

George Man, 18^th-century parish watchguard (created by Keith Heller);

Chief Constable March (created by Patricia Wentworth);

Colonel March (created by Carter Dickson);

Inspector Humphrey Marion (created by John Dickson Carr);

Chief Inspector Alan Markby (created by Ann Granger);

Colonel Marquis (created by Carter Dickson);

Chief Inspector Martin (created by Richard Amberley);

Inspector George Martin (created by Francis Beeding);

Chief Superintendent George Masters (created by Douglas Clark);

Chief Inspector Humphrey Masters (created by Carter Dickson);

Inspector Mather (created by Graham Greene);

Roger Matthews (created by James Anderson);

Chief Inspector Gil Mayo (created by Marjorie Eccles);

Chief Inspector McLean (created by George Goodchild);

Inspector John McLeish (created by Janet Neel);

Inspector Midwinter (created by Harrington Hext);

Detective Nick Miller (created by Jack Higgins);

Inspector "Touchy" Miller (created by Philip Daniels);

Sergeant Arthur Milton (created by L. Henderson);

Inspector Mitchell (created by Pauline Bell);

Chief Inspector Mitchell (created by Freeman Wills Crofts);

Inspector Moresby (created by Anthony Berkeley);

Inspector Morgan (created by John Bingham);

Chief Inspector Morrissey (created by Kay Mitchell);

Chief Inspector Morse (created by Colin Dexter);

Constable James Morton (created by Ray Harrison);

Phil Moss (created by Bill Knox);

Sergeant Angus Mott (created by Clare Curzon);

Inspector Narracott (created by Agatha Christie);

Chief Constable Alan Nesbitt (created by Jeanne M. Dams);

Inspector Nilsen (created by June Drummond);

Inspector Nivens (created by Emily Brightwell);

Winston Nkata (created by Elizabeth George);

Inspector Guy Northeast (created by Joanna Cannan);

Inspector Oates (created by Margery Allingham);

Inspector Jack Oxby (created by Thomas Swan);

Chief Inspector Pardoe (created by Dorothy Bowers);

Sergeant Peter Pascoe (created by Reginald Hill);

Constable Jock Patterson (created by Peter N. Walker);

Detective Hugh Patterson (created by Jill McGown);

Inspector Richard Patton (created by Roger Ormerod);

Detective Charlie Peace (created by Robert Barnard);

Inspector Henry Peckover (created by Michael Kenyon);

Inspector Gregory Pellew (created by Val Gielgud);

Inspector Percival (created by Richard Hull);

Chief Inspector Merlin Perry (created by David Williams);

Sergeant Patrick Petrella (created by Michael Gilbert);

Detective Carmen Pharoah (created by Peter Turnbull);

Superintendent James Pibble (created by Peter Dickinson);

Detective Owen Pitt (created by Stephen Solomita);

Inspector Thomas Pitt (created by Anne Perry);

Chief Inspector Pointer (created by A.E. Fielding);

Inspector John Poole (created by Henry Wade);

Chief Superintendent Erskine Powell (created by Graham Thomas);

Officer Robin Price (created by Anne Morice);

Inspector Ronald Price (created by Joanna Cannan);

Detective Charlie Priest (created by Stuart Pawson);

Simon Puttock, a bailiff (created by Michael Jacks);

Detective Douglas Quantrill (created bt Sheila Radley);

Inspector Adam Quill (created by Caryl Brahms and S.J. Simon);

Inspector Raikes (created by Dorothy Bowers);

Inspector Rambler (created by Peter Antony);

Inspector Stephen Ramsay (created by Ann Cleeves);

Inspector John Rebus (created by Ian Rankin);

Sergeant Reed (created by Charles Drummond);

Inspector Charlie Resnick (created by John Harvey);

Inspector Reynolds (created by Eric Bruton);

Constable Nick Rhea (created by Nicholas Rhea);

Constable [later Inspector and then Superintendent] Richardson (created by Basil Thomson);

Inspector Ringrose (created by Eden Phillpotts);

Inspector Ringwood (created by Katherine Farrer);

Charles Ripley (created by John Wainright);

Inspector Julian Rivers (created by Carol Carnac);

Chief Inspector Roberts (created by Ken Bruen);

Inspector Roberts (created by Carter Dickson);

Detective Superintendent George Rogers (created by Jonathan Ross);

Superintendent Douglas Roper (created by Roy Hart);

Inspector Ross (created by Freeman Wills Crofts);

Superintendent Ross (created by J.J. Connington);

Superintendent Rowley (created by Miles Burton);

Inspector Tony Rowley (created by Roger Busby);

Inspector Rudd (created by June Thomson);

Sergeant Ruddock (created by Francis Beeding);

Inspector Rufford (created by J.J. Connington);

Inspector Ian Rutledge (created by Charles Todd);

Sergeant Salt (created by Dorothy Bowers);

Superintendent Seegrave (created by Wilkie Collins);

Chief Inspector Frank Shapiro (created by Jo Bannister);

Superintendent Simon Shard (created by Philip McCutchan);

Sergeant Jasper Shrig (created by Jeffery Farnol);

Leopold Silver (created by Alan Scholefield);

Robert Skinner (created by Quintin Jardine);

Inspector Anthony Slade (created by Leonard R. Gribble);

Inspector Bill Slider (created by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles);

Inspector C.D. Sloan (created by Catherine Aird);

Inspector Smallways (created by George A. Birmingham);

Chief Inspector Owen Smith (created by James Barnett);

Inspector Terry Sneed (created by G.F. Newman);

Inspector Alec Stainton (created by Stephen Murray);

County Constable Matthew Stock (created by Leonard Tourney);

Sergeant Stone (created by Sarah J. Mason);

Inspector Strang (created by Carol Carnac);

Sir John Strangeways (created by Nicholas Blake);

Inspector Angus Straun (created by Barry Cork);

Superintendent Sutcliffe (created by Robert Barnard);

Inspector David Sutton (created by Andrew Osmond);

Inspector Swaim (created by Donald Thomas);

Sergeant Swift (created by Edwin de Caire);

Inspector Tanner (created by Freeman Wills Crofts);

Constable Edward Thackeray (created by Peter Lovesey);

Colin Thane (created by Bill Knox);

Inspector Luke Thanet (created by Dorothy Simpson);

Chief Inspector H.H. Thew (created by Douglas G. Browne);

Superintendent George Thorne (created by John Penn);

Inspector Richard Thornhill (created by Andrew Taylor);

Inspector Henry Tibbett (created by Patricia Moyes);

Inspector Harry Timberlake (created by Max Marquis);

Inspector Derek Torrey (created by John Gardner);

Superintendent Perry Trethowan (created by Robert Barnard);

Nick Trevelyan (created by Susan B. Kelly);

Inspector J. Trewley (created by Sarah J. Mason);

Sergeant Troy (created by Caroline Graham);

Sergeant William Clarence Verity (created by Francis Selwyn);

Chief Inspector Sidney Walsh (created by Richard Hunt);

Inspector David Webb (created by Anthea Fraser);

Inspector Roger West (created by John Creasey);

Chief Inspector Reginald Wexford (created by Ruth Rendell);

Superintendent George "The Old General" Wharton (created by Christopher Bush);

Sergeant Wield (created by Reginald Hill);

Inspector Willis (created by Freeman Wills Crofts);

Superintendent Wilson (created by G.D.H. Cole and M.I. Cole);

Superintendent William Winter (created by Gwendoline Butler);

Inspector Witherspoon (created by Emily Brightwell);

Assistant Commissioner Wray (created by Douglas G. Browne);

Superintendent Charles Wycliffe (created by W.J. Burley);

Superintendent Mike Yeadings (created by Clare Curzon);

Inspector Young (created by Miles Burton).

Inspector Enrique Alavarez [Mallorca] (created by Roderic Jeffries);

Sergeant Martin Karl Alberg [Canada] (created by L.R. Wright);

Inspector Pierre Allain [France] (created by Bruce Graeme);

Inspector Alevrez [Majorca] (created by Roderic Jeffries);

Inspector Wang Anzhuang [China] (created by Christopher West);

Inspector Carlo Arbati [Italy] (created by John Spencer Hill);

Inspector Carol Ashton [Australia] (created by Claire McNab);

Inspector Auden [Hong Kong] (created by William Marshall);

Inspector Barlach [Switzerland] (created by Friedrich Durrenmatt);

Martin Beck [Sweden] (created by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo);

Henri Bencolin [France] (created by John Dickson Carr);

Chief Reid Bennet [Canada] (created by Ted Wood);

Superintendent Luis Bernal [Spain] (created by David Serafin);

Captain Bihn  [fictitious Southeast Asian nation] (created by Gary Alexander);

Napoleon Bonaparte [Australia] (created by Arthur W. Upfield);

Inspector Borges [Spain] (created by John Bonett);

Lieutenant Boruvka [Czechoslovakia] (created by Josef Skvorecky);

Inspector Guido Brunetti [Italy] (created by Donna Leon);

Sergeant Maynard Bullock [Canada] (created by James Powell);

Superintendent Luis Burnal [Spain] (created by David Serafin);

Inspector Henri Castang [France] (created by Nicholas Freeling);

Zinc Chandler [Canada] (created by Michael Slade);

Detective Sergeant Emile Cinq-Mars [Canada] (created by John Farrow);

Cirret [France] (created by Elizabeth Hely);

Avram Cohen [Israel] (created by Robert Rosenberg);

Detective Chief Inspector Cross [Northern Ireland] (created by Chris Petit);

Chief Superintendent John Crown [China] (created by TerryHarknett);

Detective Sergeant Aiden Cummings [Ireland] (created by Sheila Barrett);

Dmitri Danilov [Russia] (created by Brian Freemantle);

Michel Danton [French] (created by Norman Bogner);

Captain Jose Da Silva [Brazil] (created by Robert L. Fish);

Saturnin Dax [France] (created by Marten Cumberland);

Robert DeClerq [Canada] (created by Michael Slade);

Sergeant de Gier [Netherlands] (created by Janwillem van de Wetering);

Detective Inspector DeKok [Netherlands] (created by Baantjer);

Colonel Paul de Saint-Martin, Royal Highway Patrol [France] (created by Charles O’Brien);

Master Detective Otto Dietrich [German] (created by James Thayer);

Flavia di Stefano, Art Theft Squad [Italy] (created by Iain Pears);

Detective Segeant Cal Donovan [Ireland] (created by Jo Bannister);

Superintendant Duffy [Ireland] (created by Nigel Fitzgerald);

Luke Dunlop [Australia] (created by Peter Corriss);

Detective Felix Elizalde [Philippines] (created by William Marshall);

Chief Inspector Harry Feiffer [Hong Kong] (created by William Marshall);

Detective Zhong Fong [People’s Republic of China] (created by David Rotenberg);

Fowler [Australia] (created by John Godwin);

Inspector Furneaux [France] (created by Louis Tracy);

Ambrose Ganelon (four generations with the same name) [Monaco] (created by James Powell);

Inspector Jean-Paul Gautier [France] (created by Richard Grayson);

Sergeant Getulio [Brazil] (created by Joao Ubaldo Ribeiro);

Inspector Gevrol [France] (created by Emile Gaboriau);

Inspector Ganesh Vinayak Ghote [India] (created by H.R.F. Keating);

Barry Gilbert [Canada] (created by Scott Mackay);

Monsieur Gondureau, Chief of the Surete (created by Honore de Balzac);

Adjutant Grijpstra [Netherlands] (created by Janwillem van de Wetering);

Chief Inspector Alex Grismolet [France] (created by Dean Fuller);

Marshal Salvatore Guarnaccia [Italy] (created by Magdalen Nabb);

Inspector Haig [Australia] (created by S.H. Courtier);

Colonel Haki [Turkey] (created by Eric Ambler);

M. Hanaud [France] (created by A.E.W. Mason);

Sergeant Eddie Henderson [Canada] (created by L.R. Wright);

Sergeant Hoong [China] (created by Robert van Gulik);

Liu Hulan [China] (created by Lisa See);

Inspector Iqbal [Pakistan] (created by Cheryl Benard);

Commissaris Jan [Netherlands] (created by Janwillem van de Wetering);

Monsieur Jonquelle (created by Melville Davisson Post);

Ben Kamal [Palestine] (created by Jon Land);

Inspector Mike Kenny [Ireland] (created by Eilis Dillon);

Superintendent Bamsan Kiet [fictitious Southeast Asian nation] (created by Gary Alexander);

Inspector Kimura [Japan] (created by James Melville);

Inspector Mateesie Kitologitsk [Canada] (Created by Scott Young);

Herman Kohler [Germany--Gestapo Investigator] (created by Joseph Robert Janes);

Colonel Kong [China/Hong Kong] (created by William Marshall);

Lieutenant Tromp Kramer [South Africa] (created by James McClure);

RCMP Sergeant Dan Laurenson [Canada] (created by R.F. Darian);

Sergeant Juan Llorca [Spain] (created by Delano L. Ames);

Ernst Lohmann [Germany] (created by Jack Gerson);

Joe Lombardo [Canada] (created by Scott Mackay);

Ambrose Mahon [Australia] (created by S.H. Courtier);

Inspector Maigret [France] (created by Georges Simenon);

Inspector Scobie Malone [Australia] (created by Jon Cleary);

Bolivar Manchenil [Virgin Islands] (created by Donald McNutt Douglass);

Captain Maestrangelo [Italy] (created by Magdalen Nabb);

Inspector Carl McCadden [Ireland] (created by Jim Lusby);

Chief Superintendent Peter McGarr [Ireland] (created by Bartholomew Gill);

Cecil Megarry [Northern Ireland] (created by E. McEldowney);

Inspector Matt Minogue [Ireland] (created by John Brady);

Felix Norman [France] (created by Marten Cumberland);

Chief Inspector James Odhiambo [Kenya] (created by Dennis Casley);

Inspector O'Donovan [Ireland] (created by Brian Cleeve);

Chief Inspector Michael Ohayon [Isreal] (created by Batyr Goor);

Superintendent O’Malley [Ireland] (created by Michael Kenyon);

Superintendent Tetsuo Otani [Japan] (created by James Melville);

Senior Inspector O'Yee [Hong Kong] (created by William Marshall);

Don Pancho [Mexico] (created by Bruce Buckingham);

Detective Claire Parker [Canada] (created by Laurence Gough);

Chief Inspector Clovis Pel [France] (created by Mark Hebden);

Superintendent Pepper [Canada] (created by Frank A. Smith);

Petrovich [Russia] (created by Fyodor Dostoyevsky);

Sergeant Mel Pickett [Canada] (created by Eric Wright);

Inspector Pinaud [France] (created by Pierre Audemars);

Arkady Renko [Russia] (created by Martin Cruz Smith);

Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman Madoc Rhys (created by Alisa Craig);

Inspector Simon Riviere [France] (created by Claude Aveline);

Inspector Porfiry Petrovich Rostnikov [Russia] (created by Stuart Kaminsky);

Inspector Royle [Australia] (created by Robert Barnard);

Inspector Charlie Salter [Canada] (created by Eric Wright);

Inspector John Sanders [Canada] (created by Medora Sale);

Inspector Sands [Canada] (created by Margaret Millar);

Ichiro Sano, [Medieval Japan] (created by Laura Joh Rowland);

Inspector George Sansi [India] (created by Paul Mann);

Constable Jake Small [Canada] (created by A.E. Eddenden);

Inspector Spearpoint [Suva] (created by Frank Arthur);

Inspector Spencer [Hong Kong] (created by William Marshall);

Inspector Jean Louis St. Cyr [France] (created by Joseph Robert Janes);

Commissioner James Munroe Tallant [West Indies] (created by Andrew York);

Inspector Albert V. Tretheway [Canada] (created by A.E. Eddenden];

Superintendent Vachell [British Africa] (created by Elspeth Huxley);

Incra Vallo [Italy] (created by Carlo Emilio Gadda);

Inspector Van Der Valk [Netherlands] (created by Nicholas Freeling);

Inspector Kurt Wallander [Sweden] (created by Henning Mankell);

Sergeant Wilkie [Canada] (created by Eric Wright);

Detective Jack Willow [Canada] (created by Laurence Gough);

Detective Sergeant Campbell Young [Canada] (created by J.D. Carpenter);

Aurelio Zen [Italy] (created by Michael Dibdin);

Mickey Zondi [South Africa] (created by James McClure).

Agatha (Troy) Alleyn (created by Ngaio Marsh);

Judith Raven (Appleby) (created by Michael Innes);

Kori Brichter (created by Mary Monica Pulver);

Cathy Carter (created by Eileen Dewhurst);

Bunty Felse (created by Ellis Peters);

Ellie (Soper) Pascoe (created by Reginald Hill);

Clare Ringwood (created by Katherine Farrer);

Emmy Tibbett (created by Patricia Moyes);

Arlette Van der Valk (created by Nicolas Freeling);

Dora Wexford (created by Ruth Rendell).

Vinnie Altobelli (created by Milton Bass);

Lew Archer (created by Ross MacDonald);

Ezell "Easy" Barnes (created by Richard Hilary);

Lilly Bennett (created by Marne Davis Kellogg);

Jack Blaine (created by Al Sarratonio);

Charlie Bradshaw (created by Stephen Dobyns);

Frank Branco (created by David Daniel and Chris Carpenter);

Jack Cardigan (created by William Shatner);

Carlotta Carlyle (created by Linda Barnes);

Fred Carver (created by John Lutz);

Joe DiGregorio (created by Seth Margolis);

Chester Drum, an ex-FBI agent (created by Stephen Marlowe);

Nick Duffy (created by Dan Kavanagh);

Jack Dwyer (created by Ed Gorman);

Meg Gillis (created by C.J. Songer);

Nate Heller (created by Max Allan Collins);

Jack Kiley (created by John Harvey);

Jacob Lomax (created by Michael Allegretto);

Mac (created by Thomas Blanchard Dewey);

Harry MacNeil (created by H. Paul Jeffers);

McGregor (created by Henry Kane);

Alex McKnight (created by Steve Hamilton);

Stanley Moodrow (created by Stephen Solomita);

Harry Orwell [television] (created by Howard Rodman);

Mel Pickett [Canada] (created by Eric Wright);

John Raven [British] (created by Donald MacKenzie);

Tony Rome (created by Marvin H. Albert);

Lenny Schwartz (created by Irving Weinman);

Nick Sharman (created by Mark Timlin);

Kate Shugak (created by Dana Stabenow);

Aristotle Plato Socarides (created by Paul Kemprecos);

Spenser (created by Robert B. Parker);

Wish Stephenson (created by Dianne Day);

Holland Taylor (created by David Housewright);

Mitch Tobin (created by Tucker Coe);

Gabe Treloar (created by John Roberts);

Paul Whelan (created by Michael Raleigh).

Mali Anderson (created by Grace F. Edwards);

Inspector John Appleby (created by Michael Innes);

Kate Baker (created by Gary Krist);

Burke Basile (created by Sandra Brown);

Lobo Black, a disabled former lawman (created by William DeAndrea);

Peter Brichter (created by Mary Monica Pulver);

Avram Cohen [Israel] (created by Robert Rosenberg);

Joe Crow (created by Pete Hautman);

Gregor Demarkian, the former head of the FBI's Behavoral Sciences Unit (created by Jane Haddam);

Peter Diamond, British (created by Peter Lovesey);

Bill Driver (created by J. Wallis Martin);

Luke Dunlop, Australian (created by Peter Corriss);

Jack Dwyer (created by Ed Gorman);

Mike Flint (created by Austin R. Healy);

Jimmy "Griff" Griffin (created by Preston Pairo III);

Jefferson "J.W." Jackson, disabled former policeman (created by Philip R. Craig);

Kevin Kerney (created by Michael McGarrity);

Elizabeth Kennedy (created by Frances Fyfield);

Edwin Kreiss, a retired F.B.I. agent (created by P.T. Deutermann);

John Spencer Lubbock, a retired Detective Chief Inspector in Great Britain (created by Brian Cooper);

Johnny MacClough (created by Reed Farrel Coleman);

Terril McCaleb (created by Michael Connelly);

Adam McCleet (created by Rick Hanson);

Bryan Murphy (created by Terri White);

Frank Pavlicek (created by Andy Straka);

(Former Deputy Federal Marshall) Oscar Schiller (created by Douglas C. Jones);

(Ex-Inspector) Paxton Sevrel (created by Cedric Worth);

(Ex-Commissioner) Sir Denis Nayland Smith (created by Sax Rohmer);

Mel Pickett, a retired Canadian police officer (created by Eric Wright);

Ex-Lieutenant) Seymour Pinchus (created by Dennis Asen);

Isaac Sidel, a former police commissioner (created by Jerome Charyn);

Calico Jack Walker, a former patrolman (created by Paul Bishop);

Lee Ann Warren (created by Chassie West);

John Webber (created by Anthony Oliver);

Charlie Willis (created by Lee Goldberg);

(Ex-Superintendnet) Henry Wilson (created by G.D.H. Cole and M.I. Cole);

(Ex-Superintendent) Archie Wiston (created by Lindsay Anson).

Harvey Ace (created by Merle Horwitz);

Rachel Alexander (created by Carol Lea Benjamin);

Johnny Aloha (created by Day Keene);

Vinnie Altobelli (created by Milton Bass);

Pete Amsterdam (created by Lawrence Shames);

Lew Archer (created by Ross MacDonald);

Michael Archer (created by Dianne Day);

Jacob Asch (created by Arthur Lyons);

Aaron Asherfeld (created by David Berlinski);

Mick "Brew" Axbrewder (created by Reed Stephens);

Sonny Baca (created by Rudolpho Anaya);

Dred Balcazar (created by Ned White);

Masey Baldridge (created by James D. Brewer);

Paul Bannerman, the owner of a private investigations firm (created by John Maxim);

Ezell "Easy" Barnes (created by Richard Hilary);

Carver Bascombe (created by Kenn Davis);

Ginger Barnes (created by Donna Hus